THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 11, 1989
FRANCO-
JAPS. TO
BRITISH TALKSTRY COL: ON FAR EAST
LONDON, TO-DAY. A DEPUTATION OF THE FRANCO-CHINESE COMMITTEE OF THE FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES IS VISITING LONDON ON WEDNESDAY AT THE IN VITATION OF TEN MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.
SPEAR
PEIPING, TO-DAY. JAPANESE
SPOKESMAN
ARMY YESTERDAY THAT
ANNOUNCED SPEAR, THE BRITISH MILI- COL.
TARY ATTACHE HELD BY Among those who issued the in PEAR BEFORE A SPECIAL THE JAPANESE, WOULD AP- vitation were Sir J. S. Wardlaw-COURT-MARTIAL AT KAL- Milne (Conservative) and Mr.GAN. Vernon Bartlett (Liberal),
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The spokesman was unable to reveal the date of the trial or the charges against Col. Spear.
The tribunal before which hel is to appear is a special body created since the present hosti- lities began,' and is normally used for the trial of Japanese civilians or foreigners infringing the mili- tary law.
The committee, comprising about 340 deputies of all parties, recent ly had important discussions with the French Premier, M. Daladier, and Foreign Mininter, M. Bonnet, on French policy in the Far East. The deputation, which is led by M. Marius Moutet, former Minis ter of Colonies, will discuss the Far Eastern situation with M.P's at a meeting at the House of Lords It consists of "persons attach- on Wednesday evening following ed to the Japanese army,” but lunch at the House of Commons.-not officers. This is believed to Reuter.
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Spear, the spokesman said that three Japanese soldiers were now being tried at Kalgan, and added: "If we can try our own soldiers I guess we are able to try Col. Spear." Reuter.
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ed whether the League of Nations, Mr. R. A. Butler, the Under- had ever been notified of acts of Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said aggression by the Soviet armies in in the House of Commons ́yester- China culminating in the imposi- tion of the Soviet system in Sin- day that repeated representations kiang and Szechuen.
to the Japanese Government had been made by Sir Robert Craigie in Tokyo for the release of Col. Spear, the military attache in China,
Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secre- tary for Foreign Affairs, replied that there had been wide extension
of Russian influence in Sinkiang in the last few years.
However, the system of govern- ment had not been Sovietised, in either province, nor had either been the object of aggression by the Soviet Union, Reuter.
NEUTRALITY OF SMALL STATES
London, To-day.
The Prime Minister was asked. in the House of Commons yester. day to give an assurance that no- Sovereign State, contrary to its will, shall be included in any non- aggression pact entered into by Britain.
Craigie would continue to press Mr. Butler added that Sir Robert for Col. Spear's early release.
No definite charges had yet been fórmulated against him, he con- cluded. -Reuter.
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The flight by these machines, which arrived at Le Bourget mill- tary airport last evening, will be part of this year's celebrations of the French national holiday,
The R.A.F. planes are returning England directly after the fly past in Paris-Reuter.
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